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Under Magna Carta the King cannot imprison a freeman without being convicted by a trial of his peers (1215)

John Lackland (King John)

Found in: Magna Carta: A Commentary

No freeman shall be taken or [and] imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or [and] by the law of the land.